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TECHNICIAN FOURTH CLASS
RICHARD L. EBERHARD was
born in February of 1917* in Chestnut Hill PA to Karl and Anna Eberhard. The
sixth child, he was born after Howard H., Lena, Wilhelmina, Henrietta,
and Karl. In 1920 the family owned a home at 678 Bulson Street, near the
corner of South 7th and
Bulson
Streets. Their home fronted the
railroad tracks that run from the Camden Waterfront to destinations in
southern New Jersey, and was in sight of the Camden
Brewery. At that time Karl Eberhard was working as a crane operator
at a shipyard, most likely the nearby New York Shipbuilding Company,
which was a short wall from the family home. In 1930 the family was
still at the Bulson Street address, and three more children had come
along, Earl, Mary Jane, and Bernice. Brother Howard, a shipyard
electrician had married and moved to nearby Gloucester City, and sister
Wilhelmina had moved on as well. The remaining older sisters were
working, as well, as a telephone operator for bell telephone and in the
shipyard, respectively. Richard Eberhard attended Camden
County Vocational School in Pennsauken NJ for three years. He later worked for the
Oaklyn Auto Sales Company in Oaklyn NJ.
Richard Eberhard was inducted into the United States Army at Camden NJ
on July 6, 1942. He went overseas, assigned to the Service Company,
350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division. He was killed
in the fighting to take Monte Grande in Italy on
October 18, 1944, when, in the very late afternoon, German artillery
shelled the 350th Infantry Regiment's command post. His surviving family members included three brothers,
Howard Eberhard of Brooklawn, Earl
C. Eberhard, of 730 Division Street, Gloucester City NJ, and Karl
Eberhard. Richard Eberhard's body was returned to the United
States and he was buried at Locustwood Burial Park in what is now Cherry
Hill NJ on June 11, 1949.
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